Peter C. Herman

Early Modern Others (eBook, PDF)

Resisting Bias in Renaissance Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Early Modern Others highlights instances of challenges to misogyny, racism, atheism, and antisemitism in the early modern period. Through deeply historicising early modern literature and looking at its political and social contexts, Peter C. Herman explores how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000967548
• Artikelnr.: 68699439

Autorenporträt

Peter C. Herman is Professor of English Literature at San Diego State University. He is the author of Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 (2020), Destabilizing Milton: "Paradise Lost" and the Poetics of Incertitude (2005), and Royal Poetrie: Monarchic Verse and the Political Imaginary of Early Modern England (2010), among other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Thomas More's Utopia and the "New World"

Chapter 2: "I am no child, no babe": The Shrew Plays

Chapter 3: "That's More than We Know": The Crisis of the 1590s in Deloney, Dekker, and Shakespeare

Chapter 4: The Circulation of Atheism in Early Modern England: Tamburlaine, Selimus, and King Lear

Chapter 5: The Religious "Other" in Early Modern England: The Jew of Malta, The Merchant of Venice, and The Renegado

Chapter 6: Othello and London's Africans

Works Cited

Index

Rezensionen

"This compact yet wide-ranging book is fundamentally concerned with how early modern literature is inherently dialogic, and Herman is invested in the ways in which issues of gender, race, religion, and status are always in a continual process of negotiation both in and beyond the theatres. The book is remarkable in terms of the inverse relationship between the text's size and the topics it attempts to cover. . . . This, in the end, is an ambitious book that makes us conscious of the perils of a univocal reading of literature, and which ultimately provides a very different voice in the context of current critical debates in higher education and academic scholarship around issues of racism, identity, prejudice, and discrimination."

--Bethan Davies, The Spenser Review